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BL
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1045930
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b800300
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| Main Entry
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Abu-Lughod, Janet L.
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| Title & Author
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Before European hegemony : : the world system A.D. 1250-1350 /\ Janet L. Abu-Lughod.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1989.
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| Page. NO
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xvi, 443 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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0195058860
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: 0195067746
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: 9780195058864
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: 9780195067743
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 374-427) and index.
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| Contents
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Studying a system in formation -- The cities of the Champagne fairs -- Bruges and Ghent: commercial and industrial cities of Flanders -- The merchant mariners of Genoa and Venice -- The Mongols and the Northeast Passage -- Sindbad's way: Baghdad and the Persian Gulf -- Cairo's monopoly under the slave sultanate -- The Indian subcontinent: on the way to everywhere -- The strait and narrow -- All the silks of China -- Restructuring the thirteenth-century world system.
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| Abstract
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In this important study, Abu-Lughod presents a groundbreaking reinterpretation of global economic evolution, arguing that the modern world economy had its roots not in the sixteenth century, as is widely supposed, but in the thirteenth century economy--a system far different from the European world system which emerged from it. Using the city as the working unit of analysis, Before European Hegemony provides a new paradigm for understanding the evolution of world systems by tracing the rise of a system that, at its peak in the opening decades of the 14th century, involved a vast region stretching between northwest Europe and China. Writing in a clear and lively style, Abu-Lughod explores the reasons for the eventual decay of this system and the rise of European hegemony. -- From product description.
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Cities and towns, Medieval.
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Economic history-- Medieval, 500-1500.
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International trade-- History.
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Comparative economics.
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Commerce international-- Histoire.
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Histoire économique-- 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
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Villes médiévales.
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Cities and towns, Medieval.
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Economic conditions-- Medieval, 500-1500.
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Economic history-- Medieval.
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International trade.
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Dorpen.
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Economische geschiedenis.
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Steden.
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| Dewey Classification
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330.94/017
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| LC Classification
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HC41.A28 1989
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| NLM classification
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15.20bcl
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15.70bcl
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NM 1200rvk
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